The capo of the Modem continues to warn the executive. After urging to avoid any “forced step” in terms of pension reform in an interview with ParisianFrançois Bayrou called this Sunday not to “choose a brutal method” to carry out this file.
“This reform is vital,” he said at the Great meeting Europe 1/CNoticias/Les Echos. “But if we want it to take its full meaning and be accepted, it must be carried out according to a method that the president presented in the presidential election (…). We are going to give up the reforms that fall from above. ready-made (…) and we are going to carry out these reforms with all the economic and social forces”.
In recent days, Emmanuel Macron has given a boost to the pension reform, which had been interrupted by Covid during the first five years. The executive has indicated that he could intervene, including through the social security financing bill (PLFSS) presented on September 26 in the Council of Ministers and then examined in Parliament.
“No preparation done”
A path that leads the opposition and divides even within the majority, at a time when Emmanuel Macron launched his “National Council for Refoundation” which must give a privileged place to in-depth consultation with political forces, unions and the associations.
“The passage in force is the opposite of the spirit of the CNR, which intends to examine the problems together”, stressed François Bayrou, appointed head of the CNR, in the parisian.
“There is a great social-reformist current in France, ready to advance without denying its positions so that the country can organize itself as the times demand,” he added on Sunday. “If we choose a brutal method, this current will enter into contradiction, into confrontation, into opposition with the leaders of the country. Do we need that?”
“Nothing infamous about using the 49.3”
The head of Moderna, however, assures that he is not hostile to the use of article 49.3 of the Constitution, which allows the Government to compromise its responsibility to approve a text without a vote. “There is nothing infamous about using it,” assured François Bayrou. “What is not normal is using 49.3 without the necessary preparation for the text.”
And there, according to him, “the preparation was not done.” Because if he thinks that “French society is ready for this reform”, François Bayrou believes that many French people “do not have in their hands the reasons why it will be necessary”. Therefore, he called on the executive to “take the time to educate” on the subject.
Source: BFM TV
